Yung-yu Chen
Principal Engineer at Synopsys Inc
Hsinchu, Taiwan Province
Summary
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Top SchoolYung-yu Chen is a Principal Engineer with 16 years of experience architecting high-performance software for computational lithography, OPC/RET/MEC systems, and numerical simulation of conservation laws. He combines deep academic foundations (PhD in Mechanical Engineering) with hands-on expertise in C++/Python hybrid architectures to deliver production-grade, HPC-enabled engines that prioritize speed and memory efficiency—one project achieved a >10x speedup and large memory reduction. At Synopsys he led multi-disciplinary teams to consolidate OPC/RET/MEC architectures and build curvilinear geometry and shape-deformation engines, and he also teaches numerical software development at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. His contributions span practical tooling—package management and Conda build automation—to low-level algorithm design such as R-tree indexing, CESE-method simulations, and propagation-wave solvers. Based in Hsinchu, Taiwan, he is as comfortable optimizing build pipelines and CI for reproducible environments as he is designing first-principles simulation code for compressible flows.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS Mechanical Engineering, MS Mechanical Engineering at National Taiwan UniversityPhD Mechanical Engineering, PhD Mechanical Engineering at The Ohio State University
Japanese, Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
sh10
script10
conda10
shell10
package-management10
scripting10
build-automation10
patch9
makefile9
gnu-make9
cmake9
configuration-management8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
conda-archive/conda-recipes
Apr 2014 - Sep 2015
build and test recipes for conda
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:9 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Yung-yu primarily contributed to building recipes for the Conda package manager. Their work involved creating and modifying build scripts (build.sh) for various software packages like gmsh, SCOTCH, and graphviz, and adapting build configurations for different operating systems (e.g., Darwin). Additionally, the user fixed build issues by patching upstream code and updating build scripts, ensuring successful package builds within the Conda environment.
recipespythoncondasetuptoolsanaconda
yungyuc/cythonup
Jul 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:35 commits, 9 PRs, 16 pushes in 4 months
pythonworkshopdaypython3cython
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